Here's what we know about Moniz's recent involvement with the energy industry: He was on BP's Technology Advisory Council between 2005 and 2011..
As part of the nomination process, Moniz has to fill out a financial disclosure that will become public,>>

When BP's oil rig blew up, killed eleven people and spewed nearly five million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, not one executive or board member of any of the companies involved spent a single day in jail.

The judge that BP wants to hear an estimated 200 lawsuits over the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster gets tens of thousands of dollars a year in oil royalties and is paid travel expenses to industry conferences, financial disclosure forms show.

This is the Truth-out article by expert Greg Palast that Just and Marion urged you to read in today's top story in Environment on Care2. BP was contractor for Alaskan Exxon Valdez clean-up, and now with Halliburton BP brought us disaster in the Gulf.